Mumbai: NBC Universal has promoted Vivi Zigler to president, NBC Universal Digital Entertainment. In her new post, Zigler will lend her support and expertise to all of the NBC Universal entertainment websites. She will...
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Indiana Jones becomes highest grossing release of 2008
Mumbai: With a cumulative gross of more than $713 million to date, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is the highest grossing worldwide release of 2008. This Paramount Pictures and Lucasfilm...
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Coppola’s Godfather trilogy debuts on DVD and Blu-ray
MUMBAI: More than three decades after they won the Academy Award for Best Picture, director Francis Ford Coppola’s classic films The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II have been restored by Paramount Pictures, overseen...
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Atlantic Records UK rolls album offer with iTunes, Ticketmaster
MUMBAI: B-Unique, a division of Atlantic Records UK, has announced an innovative cross-platform marketing initiative with iTunes in the UK and Ticketmaster UK for Primal Scream’s new album Beautiful Future, which will be released...
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EMI & Welk Music Group ink sales, distribution deal
MUMBAI: Welk Music Group and EMI Music have entered into an agreement in which EMI will provide the Welk Music Group with digital and physical sales and distribution services on a worldwide basis. In...
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Steven Spielberg receives Hugh Downs Award for Communication
Mumbai: Steven Spielberg is the 2008 recipient of Arizona State University’s Hugh Downs Award for Communication Excellence. His latest film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, starring Harrison Ford, opened in...
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Sony announces promotions of Galder and Weinstock to co-presidents
Mumbai: Sony Pictures Entertainment has promoted Valerie Van Galder and Marc Weinstock to co-presidents of Worldwide Theatrical Marketing. It was announced by chairman of worldwide marketing and distribution for the studio Jeff Blake to...
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AniBoom.com secures additional $10 million in funding
Mumbai: Independent animation network aniBoom has closed a $10 million Series B round of funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures and existing investor Evergreen Venture Partners. The company...
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Warner Bros. Interactive Ent, TT Games announce Guinness videogame
Mumbai: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games are teaming up with Guinness World Records to bring Guinness World Records: The Videogame to Wii and Nintendo DS in fall 2008. Guinness World Records: The...
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SACEM joins Warner/Chappell Music’s PEDL Initiative
Mumbai: Warner/Chappell Music has announced that Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM) has joined its Pan-European Digital Licensing (PEDL) initiative. The French Collection Rights Society will now be authorised to offer...
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